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Farix
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The reason I care is because the price does affect me when I purchase other DVDs and Blu-rays. While I may not be interested in Durarara!! at this time, I may be interested in another title that they are trying to sell at a similar price point. But I am not going to buy that product either because it is more than I think the value of the product is. And since the initial price is already so high, most people are going to ask for more when they sale their used discs (if they sell them at all), meaning that I will end up paying more for those discs if I do decided to purchase it 5 years down the road. Also, if other distributors are encourage to sell their products at similar price points, then I and others will end up not buying any more anime. That will result in fewer dollars at play and the market will contract even further. And as the market contracts, less anime will be licensed and released in the US. |
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agila61
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Except that the US market is not like the Japanese market. The Japanese market is supported by the pervasive mass-market manga, available for a few bucks a pop to get a telephone book sized serial. And the Japanese physical media market was always a renters market, with the collectors that emerged necessarily being the ones willing to pay rental disk prices. The purchase of anime physical media releases are just the tip of the iceberg in Japan ~ the problem for the anime industry in Japan is that following the collapse of the actual rental market of the disks, the physical media sales became dependent on that small number of people willing to pay rental prices to collect physical media. In the US, while they are both niche markets, the anime niche market has led the manga niche market, instead of the other way around. And selling into a VHS and then DVD market that had evolved into a mass market. If a healthy ecosystem is going to evolve, something will be needed to slot in between streaming generating net revenue ranging from nothing to nickles, and premium collectors physical media releases Of course, the fact that something is needed to slot in there doesn't mean that anyone has sorted out what it will be, quite yet.
Except that the physical media releases seem like they are going deeper into the anime broadcast each season in Japan than ever before, so its hard to see any strength in the "that can't happen if those are not available" complaint. There's every reason to believe that if what was being made available was selling in stronger numbers, then even more titles would be licensed for physical release. Which suggests that if there's going to be a more broadly available collectible release format, its not going to be on physical media. |
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